The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.

Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.

Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.